KATHMANDU, May 7: Minister for Women, Children and Senior Citizens, Thammaya Thapa Magar has stressed that local levels should respond to the issue of violence against women by making a special mechanism to minimize it.

ROLPA, May 21: The Women and Children's Office, Rolpa has launched girls' education program to minimize the threat of widespread practices of child marriages in the district.

BAITADI, Dec 22: Adolescent girls of Baitadi have succeeded in intervening and stopping 13 cases of would-be child marriages in the district in the past eight months.